I'll Take the Lie ~ Nancy E. Wood

This book is a book for young teen readers.  The story is about Paige and the relationship with her boyfriend Justin.  When Justin decides to break up with Paige and then all of a sudden disappears the mystery begins.  Paige is determined to find out what happend to Justin and why, she takes it upon herself to become obsessed to find out the truth no matter what.  When Paige gets information that she wasn't expecting, she has second thoughts of maybe she doesn't want to know the truth.  What will Paige do?  How bad can the truth be?  Should she have left everything the way it was and just let Justin go?

I would recommend this read to young readers that like a little romance and mystery read.  The story had many twist and turns and flowed nicely.  It was a page turner and kept the reader wondering.  The cover of the book doesn't do this book justice, I felt the cover needed to be more interesting instead of black and white trees and the back cover didn't really have much imagination. The design of the cover doesn't really reach the age group this book is for.  If I saw this in a book store shelf, I would have never picked it up which is too bad because I liked the story.  This is a good book and don't judge this book by the front or back cover.  I would read more from this author.

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About the Book

Book:  I’ll Take the Lie
Author: Nancy E. Wood
Genre:  Christian YA
Release Date: June 28, 2019

Does the truth really set you free?

Paige Hall doubts it, after her boyfriend Justin tells her he’s over it, leaving her with a broken heart and crushed dreams. When Justin disappears, she can’t help but try to find out what happened to him. But when the more she searches, the more problems arise, she can’t help but wonder if it would be better to just accept the lie…

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About the Author

Nancy E Wood was born into a missionary family and lived in Hungary until she turned twenty. Her whole childhood, she loved reading and stories, writing some of her own, but never believing she actually had the talent to be an author. Speaking multiple languages, she never thought she would be good enough in any to become a wordsmith.
Her senior year of high school, she was encouraged to write short stories, one of which turned into Perfect, a novel that couldn’t stay short. After sharing it with a few people, she decided to get it published a couple years later. She went to college in Florida, where she studied English and Music. After graduating, she married and moved to California. She published her second standalone book, I’ll Take the Lie, in the summer of 2019 and is currently working on a sequel to Perfect. She also runs a blog for young women, where she writes relatable and motivational posts that point to God. She has also done some speaking in different Christian schools and youth groups, encouraging teens to pursue Christ through some of the most difficult years of their lives.

More from Nancy

What’s truth? Why is it important? Does everyone have their own kind of truth or is there only one?
Those were questions I was dealing with in my college Apologetics class while I wrote I’ll Take the Lie, and I thought that theme would fit so well into the story.
The idea came to me a long time ago. I was really into The Great Gatsby at the time and wanted to write a story from a bystander’s point of view. Originally titled What’s Wrong with Alex?, Paige, the worried sister of Alex, who drastically changed over his first semester of college, wants to find out what happened to him. But the deeper I went into the story, the more Paige’s character shone through, and she soon became the protagonist with her ex boyfriend’s mysterious disappearance. The whole theme tied into what I was studying about apologetics and truth, so the messy pieces all came together into a solid plot.
Paige isn’t a believer, and she doesn’t really care about the idea of truth and spirituality until she gets dragged into it. It’s my hope that this book story helps young adults like me think deeper and question their beliefs. We get so caught up with our own happiness, we don’t always want to accept the hard truth. But, like Paige, we need to think about whether we can keep living pretend lives or if the truth really does set us free.

Giveaway

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